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Rebecca Lurie  is the founder of the Community and Worker Ownership Project at the City University of NY School for Labor and Urban Studies and the Murphy Institute where she also serves as faculty in the Urban Studies Department. She is a founding member of the worker-owned cooperative, New Deal Home Improvement Company. She began her working career as a union carpenter and transitioned into worker education through the union’s apprenticeship program and the construction industry. Using a sector approach for understanding industries and businesses and their employment needs, she has remained dedicated to inclusive community economic development. Rebecca has collaborated on numerous initiatives in NYC, including pre-apprenticeship programs, a Bronx green jobs network, a kitchen business incubator and the design of Best for NYC. She serves on the boards of the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative and Democracy at Work Institute. She is Trustee Emerita with the  Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture. She holds a Master’s in Organizational Change Management from The New School, a certificate in Adult Occupational Education from CUNY and is certified in Permaculture Urban Design. She is a native New Yorker raised with the spirit and passion of dedication to social justice.

As a writer I work to bridge the gap between academic rigour and plain English communication. Like a tree that falls around no one, no piece of work , no matter how great, is useful if it can’t reach an audience.

Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, Canada.

Jason Spicer is an assistant professor in the urban planning program at the University of Toronto. He researches alternative economic ownership and governance models.

A Romanian left-wing podcast.

Stephen Owen writes at Mutual Interest Media.

Matthew Sedacca is a reporting fellow at The Counter, focusing on the nation’s recovery efforts from the Covid-19 pandemic across the food industry. He previously worked at The New York Times and won a National Magazine Award for his writing on the histories of residential buildings for New York magazine.

The CEI is a not-for-profit, member based organization dedicated to furthering research, education and advocacy for economic practices that help us all to survive well together. The Institute works with Community Economies Research and Practice to bring about more sustainable and equitable forms of development by cultivating and acting on new ways of thinking about economies and politics.

The CEI seeks to support communities of all kinds who are committed to learning how to ‘survive well together’, meeting individual needs alongside the needs of our human and non-human planetary companions.

Amay Korjan is a Research Consultant at IT for Change. He works on projects that aim to formulate progressive policy positions around various sectors within the digital economy. He has a background in philosophy and sociology, and is particularly interested in the political economy of data and digital technology. He has conducted/managed research projects for various institutions, and has spent some time teaching across both high-school and university levels.

Satyavrat Krishnakumar is a Networking Associate at IT for Change. He has a background in journalism and is one of the editors of Tech People, a magazine run by the All India IT and ITeS Employees' Union, representing the interests of a broad range of IT workers engaged in collective action. He has contributed to various publications, including Himal Southasian, Scroll, Elle, and Motherland, among others.